The UN envoy for Myanmar, Noelle Heiser, is today making her first visit to the country since the February 2021 military coup, the organization announced.
The secretary-general’s special envoy “will discuss the deteriorating situation and her immediate concerns,” the UN said without elaborating, while explaining that her visit follows “extensive consultations with actors from across the political spectrum, civil society as well as communities affected by the ongoing conflict”.
According to her schedule, Heiser will hold meetings in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw.
The Singaporean diplomat’s visit, scheduled for October 2021, comes a day after the new conviction of former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has already been sentenced to 11 years in prison and was given a new six-year sentence on Monday for corruption. The 77-year-old remains in solitary confinement in a Naypyidaw prison.
Both the UN and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have appointed an envoy to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis raging in Myanmar since the 2021 coup.
So far they have made very little progress. “I don’t think even Superman can solve the Myanmar problem,” ASEAN special envoy Prak Sokonh said in frustration earlier this month.
At the end of July, the international community condemned the junta in Myanmar again after the execution of four people sentenced to death, including two figures of the pro-democracy movement.
The UN Security Council, which includes Myanmar’s allies China and Russia, condemned the executions.
In its annual report, released in early August, the UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism on Myanmar said there is a growing body of evidence that crimes against humanity are being committed in the country.
Since the coup that ousted Suu Kyi, the military has been waging a bloody crackdown on dissidents, with more than 2,100 civilians killed and nearly 15,000 arrested, according to a local non-governmental organization.
SOURCE: AMPE
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